THE RELEVANCE OF SEXUALITY EDUCATION TO THE PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The occurrence of virus and disease is not something new in this generation but the re occurrence of this deadly virus has a lot of risk on every individual and school children which kills as many as 90% of people its infect which can even leads to instantaneous death. It is one of the viruses that are capable of causing hemorrhagic (bloody fever). Epidemic of Ebola virus has occurred mainly in African countries including Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Ghana, Gabon, Uganda, The Ivory Coast and Sudan (World Health Organization, WHO, 2014).
The disease was first identified in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreak, one in Nzara and other in Yanbuku, a village near the Ebola River from which the disease take its name. Ebola virus disease outbreak occurs intermittently in tropical region of sub Saharan Africa. Between 1976 and 2013, the World Health Organization reports a total of 24 outbreaks involving. 1716 cases. The largest outbreak is the ongoing epidemics in West Africa in Guinea Sierra Leone and Liberia. As of 11th of April 2015 this outbreak has 25,826 reported cases resulting in 10,704 death. (Nguku S.T. et. al. 2015). The way in which the virus first appears in at the start of an outbreak has not been determined. However it has been hypothesized that the first patient (index case) became infected through contact with an infected animal. (WHO April 4, 2014). The length of time between exposure to the virus and the development of symptoms (incubation period) is between 2 to 21 days, usually between 4 to 10 days (CDC January 28, 2014).
The initial symptoms are usually high fever, headaches, stomach ache, decreased appetite, diarrhea, there may also be some throat, hiccups and itchy eyes the symptoms that tends to follow include vomiting rash and bleeding problem with bloody nose (epistaxis spitting up blood from the lung hemoptysis) and vomiting it up from the stomach (hematemesis) and blood eyes conjectural hemorrhages. Then comes chest pain, shock and death (Kampar JJ et al 2014).
